August 4, 2025 • 42 mins
IG is back for another episode of IG Trip to the decades! This week IG went back to the 70's and watched to of the most iconic films of that decade!! Thanks for listening!
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Core of
Entertainment hosted by me, the OC Big Corey.
You know who it is? You know the show.
Thank you so much for making theshow a part of your day.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
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AM. And today is Monday.
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Hope the week's getting off to agood start.
And I tell you what, I'm back with another episode.
I'm an accompanied by one of my dearest friends IG, and this is
episode 4, episode 4 of I GS trip to dot dot dot.
And today we're taking a trip back to the 70s.
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There's two movies, 2 movies that your boy over here had
watched and he is here to give his thoughts, give his opinions,
maybe a a nice unbiased review of two films that you're going
to hear from here in a minute. Once again, this is a serialized
series under the core of entertainment.
So episode 1 was the 90s, episode 2 was the 2000s, episode
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3 was the 80s, various movies that somewhat paved the way,
various movies that kind of flewunder the radar, but they were
movies that came out in their respected decades that
definitely stand out to me and everybody here at the core of
entertainment. And but without further ado, I'd
like to welcome back to the studio, back to the show, back
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to his show. You know his voice, you know who
he is, You know, he's got some hot bedded opinions, some, you
know, some various opinions on cinematic movies.
So without further ado, let's welcome back IG.
What's going on, buddy? What's?
Going on. Oh man, so so far this is
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episode 4. We've been through the ringer.
You, my friend, have been through the ringer.
Oh yes, been introduced. To many movies that I wasn't
sure what I would like, but yeah.
It worked and some didn't. Yeah, some didn't.
So do you want to shed some light on the previous ones that
you've watched so far for everybody out there who has just
found this platform and just found this podcast?
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Because everybody's podcast is someone's first podcast.
So this is episode 4. So why don't you catch the
audience up to speed on what you've watched so far?
Well, I know just before this wehad gone to the 80s, did some,
oh, what did we watch? Uncle Buck did some of that and
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then Conan the Barbarian. So those were good movies.
Those were fun definitely to watch.
I didn't know whether I would like I was more skeptical about
Uncle Bach than Conan, but I ended up liking Uncle Bonk even
more. And then we've also watched Sin
City. That's a good one.
It's a. Trip to the 2000s right there.
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Yes, that was a good one. That's now like like because I
watched, because I read the comic before the movie.
You had introduced me to the comics first.
So that was definitely, it's like one of my top comics that
I've read so far. Now that's a good one.
And then what do we do for the 90s?
Small. Soldiers.
That's right. Small soldiers.
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That was a that was a fun one. I was also skeptical about that
one, but I like the concept of that movie.
Early days, it's like Toy Story from hell.
Yeah, yeah. That'd be a fun little adventure
though it. Would be so it's episode 4.
Obviously, IG here is basically sacrificed himself, his his time
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and energy into watching variousmovies that I've recommended
various movies that I've sent his way.
The whole concept of this show, for all you new listeners out
there, as he just explained, is essentially bringing light to
various, you know, decades and movies that, you know, maybe
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various generations or maybe people in that generation
haven't seen. So the idea behind this show was
just kind of a brainchild between IG and myself.
And so far it's it's been prettyfun.
I'm I'm having a good time because I've seen all of them,
But nevertheless. So today's episode is I GS trip
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to the 70s. Now, the 70s, as we know, has
paved the way for one of the biggest universe built films of
all time in Star Wars. We obviously know Star Wars.
Everybody in the world knows Star Wars.
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The only people that don't know about Star Wars are the people
that were in Star Wars. So but and, and maybe Harrison
Ford, the only actor whose career wasn't demolished by that
film anyway. I'm kidding.
I kid, of course, but we also had Jaws, the first summer
blockbuster, so we tried to stayfar from those two and IG here
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he ended up watching 2. I'm going to give him the floor
and he's going to tell you what he watched and give his
thoughts, his two cents, his review.
I'm going to kind of be there toshed some light, maybe touch on
some motivations, some creative choices that these films took.
But nevertheless, what did you watch this past week?
First and foremost, I watched Grease, so that was with John
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Travolta and that was a that's definitely a jump from the rest
of the movies we've watched so far for this, because, I mean,
everything else has been maybe action or comedy.
This has been a lot more. It has a much more musical taste
to it, which I've never been thebiggest fan of, but in some ways
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it worked for me. It was still a fun movie, but it
definitely won't go as like #1. Those those sweet dance moves
that Travolta can do. I have to admit that was just
fun watching. Yeah, because at first I didn't
realize it was going to be a musical or anything.
And then they break out into song and dance.
I'm like, I think it was on the bleachers for his character
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Danny at 1st. And I was.
I could not stop smiling at that.
So that was fun. And then the second one I
watched was Dirty Harry. So Mr. Clint Eastwood that I
haven't actually seen a lot of. So I've always had references
and watch snippets of any of hisfilms, but to watch sit down and
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watch one of his films was pretty, pretty fun.
I love his character in that movie.
So between the two, they do havea bit of a stretch.
It is kind of a bit of a stretchbetween Grease and Dirty Harry,
but both films weirdly paved theway for what eventually will
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follow as far as like hipper musicals, you know, the the guy
gets the girl, you know, eventually they're they're
together, you know, obviously inGrease and not a recycled
storyline, but revisiting a familiar story in a very
colorful and vibrant scenery. You know, I mean, Olivia and
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John, I mean, you say what you will, that the hair high enough
to tease the heavens, you know, and the leather jackets.
And it's it's definitely a staple because I'm sure there
was moments through the through the film, whether that's the
cars or whether it's the scenery, like, oh, that's the
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reference that this film or thisshow made, you know, and when it
comes to a dirty Harry, you know, it really kind of cemented
the the the soon to be anti hero.
Would you agree with that? Yeah, I would agree.
So I mean, I think both of the movies definitely like I can
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see, you know what other movies nowadays even now still kind of
pull from like those concepts. It's definitely, you can
definitely tell it's early stages of those kind of like
themes and like kind of stories almost because there was a lot
like for Grease for me where I'mlike, I almost don't know where
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the conflict is and like I don'teven know why there's such a
back and forth thing that it's very like simple and just comes
out of nowhere. But like now it's a lot more, a
little bit more refined in thoselike little details.
But I mean, you could still see the concept of, you know, what's
happening in the movie. And how did?
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How did the violence hit you forfor Dirty Harry?
How did that, you know, did it ever like kind of like slowly
creep in that, wow, this is made, this is made in the 70s,
you know, and for, you know, thetime, you know, I mean, this is,
you know, Clint Eastwood not being behind the camera, but
being in front of the camera, you know, and this is one of his
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more well known, well known rules.
No, it's it's definitely much different than everything else
I've used to. But yeah, it's like the kind of
first, like you kind of skid an image of an like anti hero cuz
which I like that kind of concept in stories where you
have a character that kind of plays the hero, but he doesn't
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necessarily do everything that he should.
Like he doesn't choose the best path that he could, but it's in
the name of trying to take down someone that's even worse than
he is. So I like that, which is which
is weird because I didn't see because at first scene, you
know, you have like some evil sniper coming out and, you know,
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making hits and, you know, you have a cop that comes in.
You know, I kind of thought, OK,well maybe this is going to be
like a just a typical cop versus, you know, thug or
whatever criminal. Good guy, bad guy.
Yeah. And then it kind of turns into
more. It's almost like some serial
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killer, I mean, creep that just can't keep control of his
emotions later on. I mean, you kind of really see
that as he starts to like lose control of the situation.
It just drives him insane. And then Clint Eastwood's
character, I mean, Harry is just, he doesn't really care
about what anybody thinks and he's going to do what he wants.
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So I mean, it's definitely a lot.
It turned out to be different than I expected, but I can see
the kind of start of the whole anti hero theme, which is cool.
It's cool to see early days because you have that bit more
violence and you know, the fact that you know, Harry is shot.
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The what's the killer's name? I always forget do we get?
We can. We can look it up.
Yeah, we'll have to look it up. Because, like, he has them on
the ground at the stadium and heshot him.
And then he's kind of just stepping on him, not reading any
of the rides and, you know, trying to get out of him where
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the missing girl was. So which is something that all
the other police officers in themovie would never have done, but
he's doing it because it's what he needs to do.
But then he gets reprimanded forthat.
Well, I think when you're takingliberties, you know, creative
liberties, when you're taking those leaps, you know, it's
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really unique to see if they stick the landing, you know, and
this is Clint Eastwood. I mean, it's it's everybody
knows. My mom knows who Clint Eastwood
is. Like, I always equate it to like
it. It definitely has a place.
It definitely has a place, you know, in the writing, in the,
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you know, the cinematography, the settings, the dialogue.
I mean, like it's, it's essentially and it maybe it's
maybe it's the comic book guy inme.
That one resonates with certain films and certain films later on
vocalize various points. One thing that always comes to
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mind with Dirty Harry, and it's kind of a weird comparison, and
I'm perfectly comfortable sayingthis on Mike, which is there's a
line in Deadpool that always reminds me of it.
It's like, Oh no, no, no, no, I'm not a hero.
I'm just a bad guy that gets paid to fuck up worse.
Bad guys, you know? And there's a lot of weight
behind that because yes, Deadpool's very successful
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billion dollar character. But those lines that he reads,
it does harken back to your old gunslinger films, your old cops
and robber style films where it's kind of a means to an end,
right? You know, there's one Rd. that
Harry's on, there's one Rd. thathe's on.
And he knows that it's it was what he has to do.
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Regardless of what anybody else thinks, regardless of what oath
or what obligation may have beensaid, it's still he is who he
is. You know, how did you take the
performances from both of the films?
Because this is John Travolta and you know who he is.
And this is Clint Eastwood. You know who he is.
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How did the performances like Weigh weigh on you?
I thought they were surprisinglygood for like the, you know, for
the themes and, you know, the kind of storylines that they
were following. I mean, I think they both
portrayed those characters perfectly.
I mean, I love, I love Dirty Harry.
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He's I think he plays that role very, very well.
I mean, he has like the whole, Idon't care what anybody says,
I'm doing this, I'm doing that. Or if you don't like it, they
get out of the way or I'm leaving, whatever.
So he does that role very well. And John Travolta does like the
kind of smug, like kind of chillback, relax.
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I don't know if you he's not a jockey.
He is more like a, he's more like 1 of the goth kids in high
school. Because I can't tell because at
first it seems like their characters are like popular, but
then they all are also like dorky in different ways too, so
it's kind of interesting. But like, they have their own.
Everybody's dorky when your pants are pulled up that high.
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Yeah, you know so but. He does like the nice, the kind
of like tries to hide his character How what like his real
personality when he's with his friends and they like switches
back and forth and the fact thathe has to play it off when he's
around his friends and you know,it ends up conflicting with his
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relationship then, you know, buthe plays that role very well.
He kind of it definitely he sells it that his character is
that way. So I mean, I was impressed with
it. I mean, it's it was funny to
watch because it's so much different than what I'm used to.
But I mean, I definitely think it was portrayed very well.
Well, and that was kind of the the one of the main reasons why
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I had recommended it because offof basis of like recommendation,
you know, you're going to see films that I don't know about
that. But then all of a sudden it's
like, wow, that actually really resonated.
That was pretty fun. I think for Travolta, you know,
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most people, you know, will revisit, you know, his iconic
roles and the roles that he's known for, whether that is
cemented through Pulp Fiction, cemented through his, you know,
early days work, if you will. But it's always fun to kind of
revisit where they had come from, you know, his early, you
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know, his early days, you know, and the guy can dance, I mean,
and he can dance, you can move. And I think that is what was so
unique about Pulp Fiction, you know, And when you have him on
screen one, it's such a leap. I mean, Pulp Fiction in in
itself is just kind of a leap asfar as where you would assume an
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actor or a character actor like Travolta would end up.
But to know that he got his starfrom Grease in early days, 70s,
like all centered on dance, all centered on dancing.
And say what you will about thatcorny dialogue or the guy gets
the girl, guy and girl don't work out, then they find their
way back together. You know, you say what you will
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about the cliche storylines, butthe music and the dancing,
that's kind of where he started,you know, when it came to Greece
And she kind of changes, you know, for him.
Did that like, kind of hit you at all in a weird way of like,
oh, that wouldn't work today, right?
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I was, I was definitely taken back when that happened because
a lot of the time because I definitely we saw it in the
movie, he wanted to change for her and you know, he started
becoming like he wanted to be more athletic because, you know,
she ended up starting chasing one of the football players to
kind of almost get back at him and he kind of got jealous.
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But then he started doing that and he started trying to be more
himself and not try to playoff this popular guy or anything
when he's around her. And then at the end, she kind
of, she has the leather jacket, the black outfit, her hair is
done. I mean, it was a much, I was
taken aback. I was surprised to see that.
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But I mean, I liked that outcome.
I liked that change in her character too, because it wasn't
just his that it was changing. It was also her.
At any point in Greece did you feel like I gotta shut this off?
I'm not doing the show anymore. No, we're not at that point yet.
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We haven't watched a movie like that.
Yeah, this one, this one was. It still had my attention.
It still grabbed my eye and it was still a fun watch.
Even though it's it definitely won't like make my top list of
movies. I'll definitely right.
I would I would still recommend it for but.
It has a place though. Yeah, it definitely has a place.
And obviously the lens of like aHigh School Musical, which is
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almost shot for shot essentiallywhat that is based off of in a
weird way with respect to like where it had come from, how it
ends up, how it starts. You know, there's like always
that joke that I always have where I've said before and like,
I think the world would be a better place if you could just
break out in a song and dance and just, you know, just say
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you're say how you're really feeling.
You know, I mean, obviously thatdoesn't work, you know, because,
you know, but much like Dirty Harry, it's like, I'm going to
do this whether you like it or not, you know, but then you get
beat up for singing, but that. Would make the world much more
interesting. It would, it would.
I don't know if it'd make it better, but make it interesting
for sure, you know? So as far as let's jump back to
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Dirty Harry for a second, how would you say Clint Eastwood
plays that role? I mean, because we haven't
really revisited one of his mosticonic pieces, which we
eventually will get to. Which is a Western, you know,
tease the audience a little bit for everybody out there.
You know, exactly what trilogy I'm talking about.
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It's probably closest to the most perfect trilogy of of all
time, hands down. But taking the cowboy hat off,
taking the, you know, the Western vibe out of it.
Did you put Dirty Harry in the in the category of like hard
boiled, you know, violent anti hero story?
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Where would you put that as as far as the category?
I would. Because it's not really an
action film. No, not really.
But it's also not like an investigative, you know, like
kind of solve a puzzle kind of movie either.
It has that bit of violence and you have you have the killer and
then you have a not so good cop,a dirty cop kind of in a certain
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manner of aspect. So I mean, it definitely it's a
kind of weird area to pick wherethat movie lies.
But definitely he plays the rolevery well.
Because I like the. I'm trying to think because
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yeah, I don't know what kind of theme you would put it.
I would say it's not, it's definitely not an action movie.
I'd say it's more like just. Maybe like a crime drama kind of
vibe. Perhaps.
Yeah, a crime drama. But.
Even that doesn't seem right. Yeah, it doesn't seem right.
I'd like to say it's just kind of it's own unique thing because
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even like today, if that movie was done today, I think you
would be able to put it as an action movie because they would
put so much more. Or like almost maybe a horror
film to. You could put a spin on that in
if you did. If it was done today, there was
be a lot more blood, gore, action perhaps.
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But for the time that it was done, I think it's definitely
more just a drama more than anything.
Yeah, and that's what I was talking about earlier, you know,
for, for people that, you know, want to revisit maybe some, some
cinema from, from back in the day and revisit a different
style of cinema. And like I said, Dirty Harry,
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it's not for everybody, obviously.
It's not for, you know, you're maybe, you know, easily, you
know, like, you know, I might have to a little bit of a strong
stomach, you know, for it. But I think for me it resonates
on a level in which it kind of shows us the antihero.
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It shows us a crime, not hard boiled detective mystery, but it
really stands on its own as far as the the genre that it's in
because it plays on a lot of elements.
It plays on the detective side. It plays on the serial killer
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side. It plays on the action side a
little bit. It plays on the dramatic side a
little bit, the crime side a little bit.
It really funnels itself like inbetween those breezeways, you
know, And part of why I believe it's resonated for so long is
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because it does that so well. It and it doesn't try to be
anything that it's not, you know, And it's very unique when
you have a film like Dirty Harrythat you watch it, it's stuck in
your head. You're thinking about it.
You're it's a party view. Now I've seen it.
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I can form my opinions later. But the real remarkable pieces,
you can take a real R rated film, very R rated film like
Dirty Harry and then you can bring it into like a Bruce
Almighty where Jim Carrey is, you know, Yeah, right.
If I'm God, then I'm Clint Eastwood and then he does the
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impersonations in the mirror andthen he's got the 44.
We all know that scene. But the carryover is like, oh,
of course, of course that would be a reference there.
But the reference still works. Like it's still is a relevant
funny joke, if I can even use that, because like I said, those
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references have no business being in a comedy.
But I mean, we've seen Family Guy, we've seen South Park,
we've seen various pop culture phenomenon phenomenons
reference, you know, lines, looks, camera angles, you know,
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I mean the whole shadow with thesilhouette suit, you know, and
and the gun, you know, it's and it's like that's where they got
it from, you know, And then you can kind of see how that early
days, you know, crafting of the story, crafting of the
character, you know, has kind ofpaved the way for other films
and paved the way for other, youknow, detectives, serialized
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dramas. Let me ask you, when you go
through like this, you know, decade of past, these past
decades, do you think that in any way Hollywood should kind of
start revisiting some of that kind of stuff?
And like taking on the concept of we're not going to reboot it,
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we're not going to do it again, but rather than revisit or redo
it, we're going to kind of put our face to the glass and do
something similar, but not rehash it.
Do you think something like thatcould be useful?
I think it could because there is a lot of like today, there is
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a lot of rebooting and revisiting, which sometimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't. But I think if you have an
original idea that grab the kindof takes certain aspects from
these older films, I think it would, I think you could do
something really good with it because there's a lot of, I
mean, there's with cinema and everything, there's an infinite
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number of stories you could possibly tell.
Some people like to just retell a story in a different way.
Some people like to create theirown story.
And I'm, I've never been a huge fan of, you know, retelling a
story and rebooting, especially if you have an original one that
does amazing. There's no need to do it again,
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you know, but if you have a different, completely different
story that kind of takes certainaspects and like certain, I
guess themes and I guess just, Iguess how would you put it, like
themes and like ways that they film these movies, You know, the
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kind of like the visuals, the sounds and everything, the kind
of, I guess the style of the movies.
If you take different like points from those and then put
it into a completely different story, it would work.
I think that would be really cool because if we get like
another, if we get like a different version of Dirty
Harry, it's not a rebooted version.
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It's not like a revisited story.It's just you have another maybe
cop or FBI agent that kind of goes after a serial killer, but
he does it in his own way. Kind of like I haven't, I don't
want to describe it the same, but the amateur movie, like you
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have a guy that, you know, he isn't like the most specialized,
you know, agent on the field that he wants to go after the
guys that, you know, murdered his wife and everything.
And you know, he does it in his own way and he finds trouble and
he struggles doing that. But I mean, you know, he's still
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has the heart to go after it. And, you know, I think something
like that, like doing something like that, you know, has that
aspect of, you know, you're doing something because you want
to catch the bad guy, but you'remaybe not choosing the best
route to do it. You know, I think that idea.
Is really cool. I mean, yeah.
And the amateur is an interesting one because you're
kind of, he's in over his head, you know, he's in over his head
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and he's utilizing the skill set.
He's utilizing what makes it, you know, what makes sense to
him. It's not quite like taking, you
know, with Liam Neeson, obviously, because he does have
a specific set of skills, obviously, and they kind of set
the stage up, you know, whereas for, you know, your early days,
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you know, something like Dirty Harry, you know, you get the
unbiased, you know, nature, likeyou've seen the movie and for
everyone out there, you've seen the movie, you know what I'm
talking about it. It doesn't really.
It's not a fun watch, but you can also see the avenues, see
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the pathway that it's kind of set out for you, you know, but
for some people, I mean, it's like, yeah, yeah, I like that.
I like this. You know, obviously that's a
relatable story for like, yeah, well, this by any means
necessary. Let's go, Let's go Take this guy
down. And I think it plays very well.
You know, I think it plays off that the emotional pay off, you
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know, because you, you know, yougot Silence of the Lambs, which
kind of did the same thing, you know, where they talking to a
bad guy to get a worse guy, you know, And there's just something
really unique about that that I feel is kind of been lost on a
lot of the cinematic pieces of of today because, you know,
through the 70s, through the 80sand through the 90s, you had the
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film makers that were just telling their vision, they're
telling their story. And sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't, you know, But I think for someone like a
Clint Eastwood, you know, he's just, I mean, he's obviously,
you know, up there with all of the the Hollywood greats, you
know what I mean? He's Clint Eastwood, for crying
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out loud. And have you been familiar with
any of his other work that you would be able to compare it to?
Not really. Like I said, I haven't watched a
lot of Clint Eastwood. Like I I'm familiar with some of
his references and everything, but I've never like, this is his
first full film that I've sat down to watch.
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So it's definitely a different take on his actual acting style
for me. And you know how he portrays
characters so. How did he portray it for you?
For for me, he portrayed it perfectly.
I mean his character kind of like I'm a huge fan of the
Punisher. The Punisher is one of my
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favorite all time marvel characters.
So seeing like a different take on like a guy that a kind of an
anti hero. But it's not like so
action-packed. You know, you don't have all
these great stakes at hand, but you just have something that's
still like, you still know that there's someone you got to
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catch, and you have some guy that comes in and does his
thing. Nobody else relikes it.
Nobody else likes how he does things, but he's going to do it
anyway. So that's one of my favorite
things about those characters, why I love that movie so much.
So I was skeptical of how it wasgoing to turn out because I
didn't really know anything. You you gave me the title of the
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movie. I'm like, OK, I'll just.
Turn it. On and watch.
It, well, and I didn't want to, you know, and, and that's kind
of partly why you know, when I, when I give you these
recommendations, cause one, they're ones that I love and
watched and I just enjoy and I can just purely unapologetically
love cinema and, and see the quality in there, you know, and
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at first when I gave you that, you know, the, the chunk of it,
I'm like, OK, everyone has seen Star Wars, everyone's seen Jaws,
everyone is kind of been throughthe ringer on those, you know,
what could be two furthest ones,you know, And I also threw deer,
Deer Hunter in there, you know, which I saw way too young, But
the, the selling point couldn't have been further, which is
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partly why I wanted to be like, OK, what are two polar
opposites? You know, check this one out.
Definitely check this one out and check that one out for sure.
But the second I tell you you like the Punisher, you'll love
this, then you're already going in predisposed, you know what I
mean? You're already going in with
some, shall we say, expectations, You know what I
mean? And that is it.
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The lens is already tinted, you know what I mean?
Because at that point you're already like, all right, cool,
cool, let's do it, let's check. And then you don't like it.
And it's like, huh, well, then you already had an expectation,
you know, and the format, you know, it's kind of by fly by the
seat of the pants here a little bit, you know, and it really
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does. It really does put a smile on my
face that watching Grease, you know, watching Dirty Harry 2
movies that couldn't be further apart from one another.
But seeing that they both have aplace in the early days,
forefront for what cinema will become, you know, and I don't
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know, I just enjoy it. I enjoy it.
And like I said, I love all movies, you know, all movies,
you know, there's a lot of genres like that that aren't
really around anymore, you know,especially the ROM coms, you
know, the ROM com era is kind ofcome and gone a little bit, you
know? You saw a couple of films here
and there that slide in like I think the last one I had watched
was probably Crazy Rich Asians. Which is a great film, yeah.
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I I did really like that. So I mean, some movies are going
to always be a hit or miss, but they all have their place, I
think. And, you know, it's fun to just
watch something new, especially something that's, you know, a
unique idea despite what genre falls under who's acting in it,
whether you've ever heard of it or not.
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You know, I think it's definitely fun, which is why I
like every movie suggestion you've given me.
But you'd, like, just go home, watch it.
You know, I don't. I personally just find the
movie, turn it on. I have no expectations walking
in to it. And it's great because, yeah, I
mean, I mean, even today with new movies and shows that I want
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to watch that look cool, I try to look into it as little as I
possibly can. I want to experience it in full
and have like, no expectations of what's happening because,
yeah, I'm not going to like every single thing that I watch.
But you know, if I go in with expectations, it definitely does
change. You know what you're going to
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think of the movie. I think that as much as, you
know, we love trailers, we love,you know, sneak peeks behind the
scenes and stuff like that, there is something, you know,
kind of fun about like, oh, I just want to, I just want to
digest the film the way it was intended.
You know, I just want to enjoy the film the way it was
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intended. And, you know, it's it's tough
because Grease, Jaws, Dirty Harry, you know, they were out,
but then they just kind of went away, you know, And I mean, you
had a limited time to see him. You had a limited time to
experience it. And I think that going into a
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film like that and part of that whole inception behind the show
was, well, yeah, let's just, I'll just recommend some to you.
Don't. You don't have to look it up.
You don't have to read about it,you know, and just check it out,
find it, see what you think, youknow, which in a weird way is
kind of like sending yourself a little bit back in time, a
little bit like, oh, I'm just watching this film in its most
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purest organic form, the way it was meant to be seen.
Because, you know as well as I do that trailers can be
misleading. The job of a trailer is to get
you excited for a trailer, you know?
And if the trailer gets you excited, guess what?
The trailer did its job, you know?
Whereas for, you know, back in the day, I mean, yeah, you saw a
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trailer, but everybody experienced it together, you
know? So before we wrap this up,
before we get out of here on this one, with all the ones that
you've watched so far, how does the 70s feel?
Do you want to stay in the 70s? Do you want to go back to the
80s? Do you want to what, what area
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do you want to roll with? I mean, 'cause there's a lot,
there's still a lot through the 70s.
There's still, there's tons through the 60s.
There's stuff through the 50s and 40s.
And then there's, you know, you can go.
You could write a book with how much stuff came out in the 80s,
in the 90s, in the early 2000s. How does it resonate with you so
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far? I mean, it's, it's so far, the
70s are definitely it definitelyhas my attention.
I want to see what else, you know, was there at that time
because, you know, some of thesemovies like I'm jealous that I
never got to like see it on the big screen.
Dirty Harry, Uncle Buck, even like small soldiers, even
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Grease, I would say, you know, Iwould have loved to see in these
movies on the theater. So I kind of, I want to keep
going through. I want to cycle through.
I think, you know, even if we goback to the 60s, I think that
would be interesting because I'm, I'm loving.
So I'm loving the 70s. So I'm curious to see, you know,
even earlier stages of, you know, filmmaking.
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I'd love to see that, but I mean, yeah, there's already been
a long list of movies you've given me for 70s and 80s, so I
definitely have to cycle back around and go through all of
these. We'll definitely work our way
through it for sure. There is one trilogy involving
Clint Eastwood, which I put up there as quite possibly one of
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the best trilogy's of all time. For narrative reasons, for
character driven reasons, for art direction, cinematography.
For all you cinephiles out thereand for all you passionate film
fans out there, you'll know exactly which trilogy I'm
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talking about. And I think that would be a
good, good place to kind of see where you're at, you know,
because this is audio and they can't, they can't see your face
from my face. But I think that Clint Eastwood
and one of his, you know, most iconic roles and not one, but
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two, but 33 iconic films, I think would be a good place to
start. And I think I can say this on
air. I think I'd like you to check
out the Dollars trilogy. The Dollars trilogy.
And have you seen that? You know what that is?
I don't know if I know what it is.
The dollars trilogy it is great.So we'll we'll do a little
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homework. I'll, I'll kind of I'll, I'll,
I'll send you the titles and then maybe when you come back
you can, we can, we can dish, wecan dish out on this one too for
sure. And it will be very, very
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interesting to hear what you think because.
This trilogy did cement and redefine a genre tenfold.
That's all I'm going to say. But yeah, yeah, man, I'm.
I'm glad you're having a good time with it so far.
That's awesome. And you're just, you know,
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you're just kind of coming in this thing, like bare bones a
little bit. Yeah.
Let's check it out. Let's do it.
Let's give it a shot. And but yeah, thank you for your
time for this one, man. And thank you so much for being
here to do this episode. Oh yes, I'm always happy to hear
your suggestions and for us to talk about it.
It's always, always a pleasure. All right, all right, man.
Well, IG thank you so much for being here, man.
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I'm glad you enjoyed Grease. I'm glad you enjoyed Dirty
Harry. I knew you would enjoy one of
them. So 5050.
All right, my man, thank you so much.
Thank you so much for being here.
Hey, for everybody else out there, this has been a special
episode of the core of Entertainment IG's trip to the
70s this week. This is an audio only podcast
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Core of
Entertainment hosted by me, the OC Big Corey.
You know who it is? You know the show.
Thank you so much for making theshow a part of your day.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
on Spotify every Monday and every Wednesday morning in the
AM. And today is Monday.
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Hope the week's getting off to agood start.
And I tell you what, I'm back with another episode.
I'm an accompanied by one of my dearest friends IG, and this is
episode 4, episode 4 of I GS trip to dot dot dot.
And today we're taking a trip back to the 70s.
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There's two movies, 2 movies that your boy over here had
watched and he is here to give his thoughts, give his opinions,
maybe a a nice unbiased review of two films that you're going
to hear from here in a minute. Once again, this is a serialized
series under the core of entertainment.
So episode 1 was the 90s, episode 2 was the 2000s, episode
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3 was the 80s, various movies that somewhat paved the way,
various movies that kind of flewunder the radar, but they were
movies that came out in their respected decades that
definitely stand out to me and everybody here at the core of
entertainment. And but without further ado, I'd
like to welcome back to the studio, back to the show, back
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to his show. You know his voice, you know who
he is, You know, he's got some hot bedded opinions, some, you
know, some various opinions on cinematic movies.
So without further ado, let's welcome back IG.
What's going on, buddy? What's?
Going on. Oh man, so so far this is
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episode 4. We've been through the ringer.
You, my friend, have been through the ringer.
Oh yes, been introduced. To many movies that I wasn't
sure what I would like, but yeah.
It worked and some didn't. Yeah, some didn't.
So do you want to shed some light on the previous ones that
you've watched so far for everybody out there who has just
found this platform and just found this podcast?
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Because everybody's podcast is someone's first podcast.
So this is episode 4. So why don't you catch the
audience up to speed on what you've watched so far?
Well, I know just before this wehad gone to the 80s, did some,
oh, what did we watch? Uncle Buck did some of that and
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then Conan the Barbarian. So those were good movies.
Those were fun definitely to watch.
I didn't know whether I would like I was more skeptical about
Uncle Bach than Conan, but I ended up liking Uncle Bonk even
more. And then we've also watched Sin
City. That's a good one.
It's a. Trip to the 2000s right there.
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Yes, that was a good one. That's now like like because I
watched, because I read the comic before the movie.
You had introduced me to the comics first.
So that was definitely, it's like one of my top comics that
I've read so far. Now that's a good one.
And then what do we do for the 90s?
Small. Soldiers.
That's right. Small soldiers.
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That was a that was a fun one. I was also skeptical about that
one, but I like the concept of that movie.
Early days, it's like Toy Story from hell.
Yeah, yeah. That'd be a fun little adventure
though it. Would be so it's episode 4.
Obviously, IG here is basically sacrificed himself, his his time
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and energy into watching variousmovies that I've recommended
various movies that I've sent his way.
The whole concept of this show, for all you new listeners out
there, as he just explained, is essentially bringing light to
various, you know, decades and movies that, you know, maybe
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various generations or maybe people in that generation
haven't seen. So the idea behind this show was
just kind of a brainchild between IG and myself.
And so far it's it's been prettyfun.
I'm I'm having a good time because I've seen all of them,
But nevertheless. So today's episode is I GS trip
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to the 70s. Now, the 70s, as we know, has
paved the way for one of the biggest universe built films of
all time in Star Wars. We obviously know Star Wars.
Everybody in the world knows Star Wars.
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The only people that don't know about Star Wars are the people
that were in Star Wars. So but and, and maybe Harrison
Ford, the only actor whose career wasn't demolished by that
film anyway. I'm kidding.
I kid, of course, but we also had Jaws, the first summer
blockbuster, so we tried to stayfar from those two and IG here
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he ended up watching 2. I'm going to give him the floor
and he's going to tell you what he watched and give his
thoughts, his two cents, his review.
I'm going to kind of be there toshed some light, maybe touch on
some motivations, some creative choices that these films took.
But nevertheless, what did you watch this past week?
First and foremost, I watched Grease, so that was with John
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Travolta and that was a that's definitely a jump from the rest
of the movies we've watched so far for this, because, I mean,
everything else has been maybe action or comedy.
This has been a lot more. It has a much more musical taste
to it, which I've never been thebiggest fan of, but in some ways
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it worked for me. It was still a fun movie, but it
definitely won't go as like #1. Those those sweet dance moves
that Travolta can do. I have to admit that was just
fun watching. Yeah, because at first I didn't
realize it was going to be a musical or anything.
And then they break out into song and dance.
I'm like, I think it was on the bleachers for his character
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Danny at 1st. And I was.
I could not stop smiling at that.
So that was fun. And then the second one I
watched was Dirty Harry. So Mr. Clint Eastwood that I
haven't actually seen a lot of. So I've always had references
and watch snippets of any of hisfilms, but to watch sit down and
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watch one of his films was pretty, pretty fun.
I love his character in that movie.
So between the two, they do havea bit of a stretch.
It is kind of a bit of a stretchbetween Grease and Dirty Harry,
but both films weirdly paved theway for what eventually will
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follow as far as like hipper musicals, you know, the the guy
gets the girl, you know, eventually they're they're
together, you know, obviously inGrease and not a recycled
storyline, but revisiting a familiar story in a very
colorful and vibrant scenery. You know, I mean, Olivia and
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John, I mean, you say what you will, that the hair high enough
to tease the heavens, you know, and the leather jackets.
And it's it's definitely a staple because I'm sure there
was moments through the through the film, whether that's the
cars or whether it's the scenery, like, oh, that's the
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reference that this film or thisshow made, you know, and when it
comes to a dirty Harry, you know, it really kind of cemented
the the the soon to be anti hero.
Would you agree with that? Yeah, I would agree.
So I mean, I think both of the movies definitely like I can
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see, you know what other movies nowadays even now still kind of
pull from like those concepts. It's definitely, you can
definitely tell it's early stages of those kind of like
themes and like kind of stories almost because there was a lot
like for Grease for me where I'mlike, I almost don't know where
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the conflict is and like I don'teven know why there's such a
back and forth thing that it's very like simple and just comes
out of nowhere. But like now it's a lot more, a
little bit more refined in thoselike little details.
But I mean, you could still see the concept of, you know, what's
happening in the movie. And how did?
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How did the violence hit you forfor Dirty Harry?
How did that, you know, did it ever like kind of like slowly
creep in that, wow, this is made, this is made in the 70s,
you know, and for, you know, thetime, you know, I mean, this is,
you know, Clint Eastwood not being behind the camera, but
being in front of the camera, you know, and this is one of his
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more well known, well known rules.
No, it's it's definitely much different than everything else
I've used to. But yeah, it's like the kind of
first, like you kind of skid an image of an like anti hero cuz
which I like that kind of concept in stories where you
have a character that kind of plays the hero, but he doesn't
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necessarily do everything that he should.
Like he doesn't choose the best path that he could, but it's in
the name of trying to take down someone that's even worse than
he is. So I like that, which is which
is weird because I didn't see because at first scene, you
know, you have like some evil sniper coming out and, you know,
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making hits and, you know, you have a cop that comes in.
You know, I kind of thought, OK,well maybe this is going to be
like a just a typical cop versus, you know, thug or
whatever criminal. Good guy, bad guy.
Yeah. And then it kind of turns into
more. It's almost like some serial
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killer, I mean, creep that just can't keep control of his
emotions later on. I mean, you kind of really see
that as he starts to like lose control of the situation.
It just drives him insane. And then Clint Eastwood's
character, I mean, Harry is just, he doesn't really care
about what anybody thinks and he's going to do what he wants.
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So I mean, it's definitely a lot.
It turned out to be different than I expected, but I can see
the kind of start of the whole anti hero theme, which is cool.
It's cool to see early days because you have that bit more
violence and you know, the fact that you know, Harry is shot.
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The what's the killer's name? I always forget do we get?
We can. We can look it up.
Yeah, we'll have to look it up. Because, like, he has them on
the ground at the stadium and heshot him.
And then he's kind of just stepping on him, not reading any
of the rides and, you know, trying to get out of him where
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the missing girl was. So which is something that all
the other police officers in themovie would never have done, but
he's doing it because it's what he needs to do.
But then he gets reprimanded forthat.
Well, I think when you're takingliberties, you know, creative
liberties, when you're taking those leaps, you know, it's
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really unique to see if they stick the landing, you know, and
this is Clint Eastwood. I mean, it's it's everybody
knows. My mom knows who Clint Eastwood
is. Like, I always equate it to like
it. It definitely has a place.
It definitely has a place, you know, in the writing, in the,
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you know, the cinematography, the settings, the dialogue.
I mean, like it's, it's essentially and it maybe it's
maybe it's the comic book guy inme.
That one resonates with certain films and certain films later on
vocalize various points. One thing that always comes to
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mind with Dirty Harry, and it's kind of a weird comparison, and
I'm perfectly comfortable sayingthis on Mike, which is there's a
line in Deadpool that always reminds me of it.
It's like, Oh no, no, no, no, I'm not a hero.
I'm just a bad guy that gets paid to fuck up worse.
Bad guys, you know? And there's a lot of weight
behind that because yes, Deadpool's very successful
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billion dollar character. But those lines that he reads,
it does harken back to your old gunslinger films, your old cops
and robber style films where it's kind of a means to an end,
right? You know, there's one Rd. that
Harry's on, there's one Rd. thathe's on.
And he knows that it's it was what he has to do.
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Regardless of what anybody else thinks, regardless of what oath
or what obligation may have beensaid, it's still he is who he
is. You know, how did you take the
performances from both of the films?
Because this is John Travolta and you know who he is.
And this is Clint Eastwood. You know who he is.
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How did the performances like Weigh weigh on you?
I thought they were surprisinglygood for like the, you know, for
the themes and, you know, the kind of storylines that they
were following. I mean, I think they both
portrayed those characters perfectly.
I mean, I love, I love Dirty Harry.
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He's I think he plays that role very, very well.
I mean, he has like the whole, Idon't care what anybody says,
I'm doing this, I'm doing that. Or if you don't like it, they
get out of the way or I'm leaving, whatever.
So he does that role very well. And John Travolta does like the
kind of smug, like kind of chillback, relax.
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I don't know if you he's not a jockey.
He is more like a, he's more like 1 of the goth kids in high
school. Because I can't tell because at
first it seems like their characters are like popular, but
then they all are also like dorky in different ways too, so
it's kind of interesting. But like, they have their own.
Everybody's dorky when your pants are pulled up that high.
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Yeah, you know so but. He does like the nice, the kind
of like tries to hide his character How what like his real
personality when he's with his friends and they like switches
back and forth and the fact thathe has to play it off when he's
around his friends and you know,it ends up conflicting with his
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relationship then, you know, buthe plays that role very well.
He kind of it definitely he sells it that his character is
that way. So I mean, I was impressed with
it. I mean, it's it was funny to
watch because it's so much different than what I'm used to.
But I mean, I definitely think it was portrayed very well.
Well, and that was kind of the the one of the main reasons why
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I had recommended it because offof basis of like recommendation,
you know, you're going to see films that I don't know about
that. But then all of a sudden it's
like, wow, that actually really resonated.
That was pretty fun. I think for Travolta, you know,
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most people, you know, will revisit, you know, his iconic
roles and the roles that he's known for, whether that is
cemented through Pulp Fiction, cemented through his, you know,
early days work, if you will. But it's always fun to kind of
revisit where they had come from, you know, his early, you
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know, his early days, you know, and the guy can dance, I mean,
and he can dance, you can move. And I think that is what was so
unique about Pulp Fiction, you know, And when you have him on
screen one, it's such a leap. I mean, Pulp Fiction in in
itself is just kind of a leap asfar as where you would assume an
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actor or a character actor like Travolta would end up.
But to know that he got his starfrom Grease in early days, 70s,
like all centered on dance, all centered on dancing.
And say what you will about thatcorny dialogue or the guy gets
the girl, guy and girl don't work out, then they find their
way back together. You know, you say what you will
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about the cliche storylines, butthe music and the dancing,
that's kind of where he started,you know, when it came to Greece
And she kind of changes, you know, for him.
Did that like, kind of hit you at all in a weird way of like,
oh, that wouldn't work today, right?
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I was, I was definitely taken back when that happened because
a lot of the time because I definitely we saw it in the
movie, he wanted to change for her and you know, he started
becoming like he wanted to be more athletic because, you know,
she ended up starting chasing one of the football players to
kind of almost get back at him and he kind of got jealous.
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But then he started doing that and he started trying to be more
himself and not try to playoff this popular guy or anything
when he's around her. And then at the end, she kind
of, she has the leather jacket, the black outfit, her hair is
done. I mean, it was a much, I was
taken aback. I was surprised to see that.
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But I mean, I liked that outcome.
I liked that change in her character too, because it wasn't
just his that it was changing. It was also her.
At any point in Greece did you feel like I gotta shut this off?
I'm not doing the show anymore. No, we're not at that point yet.
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We haven't watched a movie like that.
Yeah, this one, this one was. It still had my attention.
It still grabbed my eye and it was still a fun watch.
Even though it's it definitely won't like make my top list of
movies. I'll definitely right.
I would I would still recommend it for but.
It has a place though. Yeah, it definitely has a place.
And obviously the lens of like aHigh School Musical, which is
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almost shot for shot essentiallywhat that is based off of in a
weird way with respect to like where it had come from, how it
ends up, how it starts. You know, there's like always
that joke that I always have where I've said before and like,
I think the world would be a better place if you could just
break out in a song and dance and just, you know, just say
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you're say how you're really feeling.
You know, I mean, obviously thatdoesn't work, you know, because,
you know, but much like Dirty Harry, it's like, I'm going to
do this whether you like it or not, you know, but then you get
beat up for singing, but that. Would make the world much more
interesting. It would, it would.
I don't know if it'd make it better, but make it interesting
for sure, you know? So as far as let's jump back to
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Dirty Harry for a second, how would you say Clint Eastwood
plays that role? I mean, because we haven't
really revisited one of his mosticonic pieces, which we
eventually will get to. Which is a Western, you know,
tease the audience a little bit for everybody out there.
You know, exactly what trilogy I'm talking about.
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It's probably closest to the most perfect trilogy of of all
time, hands down. But taking the cowboy hat off,
taking the, you know, the Western vibe out of it.
Did you put Dirty Harry in the in the category of like hard
boiled, you know, violent anti hero story?
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Where would you put that as as far as the category?
I would. Because it's not really an
action film. No, not really.
But it's also not like an investigative, you know, like
kind of solve a puzzle kind of movie either.
It has that bit of violence and you have you have the killer and
then you have a not so good cop,a dirty cop kind of in a certain
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manner of aspect. So I mean, it definitely it's a
kind of weird area to pick wherethat movie lies.
But definitely he plays the rolevery well.
Because I like the. I'm trying to think because
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yeah, I don't know what kind of theme you would put it.
I would say it's not, it's definitely not an action movie.
I'd say it's more like just. Maybe like a crime drama kind of
vibe. Perhaps.
Yeah, a crime drama. But.
Even that doesn't seem right. Yeah, it doesn't seem right.
I'd like to say it's just kind of it's own unique thing because
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even like today, if that movie was done today, I think you
would be able to put it as an action movie because they would
put so much more. Or like almost maybe a horror
film to. You could put a spin on that in
if you did. If it was done today, there was
be a lot more blood, gore, action perhaps.
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But for the time that it was done, I think it's definitely
more just a drama more than anything.
Yeah, and that's what I was talking about earlier, you know,
for, for people that, you know, want to revisit maybe some, some
cinema from, from back in the day and revisit a different
style of cinema. And like I said, Dirty Harry,
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it's not for everybody, obviously.
It's not for, you know, you're maybe, you know, easily, you
know, like, you know, I might have to a little bit of a strong
stomach, you know, for it. But I think for me it resonates
on a level in which it kind of shows us the antihero.
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It shows us a crime, not hard boiled detective mystery, but it
really stands on its own as far as the the genre that it's in
because it plays on a lot of elements.
It plays on the detective side. It plays on the serial killer
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side. It plays on the action side a
little bit. It plays on the dramatic side a
little bit, the crime side a little bit.
It really funnels itself like inbetween those breezeways, you
know, And part of why I believe it's resonated for so long is
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because it does that so well. It and it doesn't try to be
anything that it's not, you know, And it's very unique when
you have a film like Dirty Harrythat you watch it, it's stuck in
your head. You're thinking about it.
You're it's a party view. Now I've seen it.
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I can form my opinions later. But the real remarkable pieces,
you can take a real R rated film, very R rated film like
Dirty Harry and then you can bring it into like a Bruce
Almighty where Jim Carrey is, you know, Yeah, right.
If I'm God, then I'm Clint Eastwood and then he does the
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impersonations in the mirror andthen he's got the 44.
We all know that scene. But the carryover is like, oh,
of course, of course that would be a reference there.
But the reference still works. Like it's still is a relevant
funny joke, if I can even use that, because like I said, those
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references have no business being in a comedy.
But I mean, we've seen Family Guy, we've seen South Park,
we've seen various pop culture phenomenon phenomenons
reference, you know, lines, looks, camera angles, you know,
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I mean the whole shadow with thesilhouette suit, you know, and
and the gun, you know, it's and it's like that's where they got
it from, you know, And then you can kind of see how that early
days, you know, crafting of the story, crafting of the
character, you know, has kind ofpaved the way for other films
and paved the way for other, youknow, detectives, serialized
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dramas. Let me ask you, when you go
through like this, you know, decade of past, these past
decades, do you think that in any way Hollywood should kind of
start revisiting some of that kind of stuff?
And like taking on the concept of we're not going to reboot it,
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we're not going to do it again, but rather than revisit or redo
it, we're going to kind of put our face to the glass and do
something similar, but not rehash it.
Do you think something like thatcould be useful?
I think it could because there is a lot of like today, there is
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a lot of rebooting and revisiting, which sometimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't. But I think if you have an
original idea that grab the kindof takes certain aspects from
these older films, I think it would, I think you could do
something really good with it because there's a lot of, I
mean, there's with cinema and everything, there's an infinite
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number of stories you could possibly tell.
Some people like to just retell a story in a different way.
Some people like to create theirown story.
And I'm, I've never been a huge fan of, you know, retelling a
story and rebooting, especially if you have an original one that
does amazing. There's no need to do it again,
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you know, but if you have a different, completely different
story that kind of takes certainaspects and like certain, I
guess themes and I guess just, Iguess how would you put it, like
themes and like ways that they film these movies, You know, the
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kind of like the visuals, the sounds and everything, the kind
of, I guess the style of the movies.
If you take different like points from those and then put
it into a completely different story, it would work.
I think that would be really cool because if we get like
another, if we get like a different version of Dirty
Harry, it's not a rebooted version.
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It's not like a revisited story.It's just you have another maybe
cop or FBI agent that kind of goes after a serial killer, but
he does it in his own way. Kind of like I haven't, I don't
want to describe it the same, but the amateur movie, like you
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have a guy that, you know, he isn't like the most specialized,
you know, agent on the field that he wants to go after the
guys that, you know, murdered his wife and everything.
And you know, he does it in his own way and he finds trouble and
he struggles doing that. But I mean, you know, he's still
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has the heart to go after it. And, you know, I think something
like that, like doing something like that, you know, has that
aspect of, you know, you're doing something because you want
to catch the bad guy, but you'remaybe not choosing the best
route to do it. You know, I think that idea.
Is really cool. I mean, yeah.
And the amateur is an interesting one because you're
kind of, he's in over his head, you know, he's in over his head
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and he's utilizing the skill set.
He's utilizing what makes it, you know, what makes sense to
him. It's not quite like taking, you
know, with Liam Neeson, obviously, because he does have
a specific set of skills, obviously, and they kind of set
the stage up, you know, whereas for, you know, your early days,
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you know, something like Dirty Harry, you know, you get the
unbiased, you know, nature, likeyou've seen the movie and for
everyone out there, you've seen the movie, you know what I'm
talking about it. It doesn't really.
It's not a fun watch, but you can also see the avenues, see
(29:28):
the pathway that it's kind of set out for you, you know, but
for some people, I mean, it's like, yeah, yeah, I like that.
I like this. You know, obviously that's a
relatable story for like, yeah, well, this by any means
necessary. Let's go, Let's go Take this guy
down. And I think it plays very well.
You know, I think it plays off that the emotional pay off, you
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know, because you, you know, yougot Silence of the Lambs, which
kind of did the same thing, you know, where they talking to a
bad guy to get a worse guy, you know, And there's just something
really unique about that that I feel is kind of been lost on a
lot of the cinematic pieces of of today because, you know,
through the 70s, through the 80sand through the 90s, you had the
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film makers that were just telling their vision, they're
telling their story. And sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't, you know, But I think for someone like a
Clint Eastwood, you know, he's just, I mean, he's obviously,
you know, up there with all of the the Hollywood greats, you
know what I mean? He's Clint Eastwood, for crying
(30:36):
out loud. And have you been familiar with
any of his other work that you would be able to compare it to?
Not really. Like I said, I haven't watched a
lot of Clint Eastwood. Like I I'm familiar with some of
his references and everything, but I've never like, this is his
first full film that I've sat down to watch.
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So it's definitely a different take on his actual acting style
for me. And you know how he portrays
characters so. How did he portray it for you?
For for me, he portrayed it perfectly.
I mean his character kind of like I'm a huge fan of the
Punisher. The Punisher is one of my
(31:17):
favorite all time marvel characters.
So seeing like a different take on like a guy that a kind of an
anti hero. But it's not like so
action-packed. You know, you don't have all
these great stakes at hand, but you just have something that's
still like, you still know that there's someone you got to
(31:38):
catch, and you have some guy that comes in and does his
thing. Nobody else relikes it.
Nobody else likes how he does things, but he's going to do it
anyway. So that's one of my favorite
things about those characters, why I love that movie so much.
So I was skeptical of how it wasgoing to turn out because I
didn't really know anything. You you gave me the title of the
(32:00):
movie. I'm like, OK, I'll just.
Turn it. On and watch.
It, well, and I didn't want to, you know, and, and that's kind
of partly why you know, when I, when I give you these
recommendations, cause one, they're ones that I love and
watched and I just enjoy and I can just purely unapologetically
love cinema and, and see the quality in there, you know, and
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at first when I gave you that, you know, the, the chunk of it,
I'm like, OK, everyone has seen Star Wars, everyone's seen Jaws,
everyone is kind of been throughthe ringer on those, you know,
what could be two furthest ones,you know, And I also threw deer,
Deer Hunter in there, you know, which I saw way too young, But
the, the selling point couldn't have been further, which is
(32:48):
partly why I wanted to be like, OK, what are two polar
opposites? You know, check this one out.
Definitely check this one out and check that one out for sure.
But the second I tell you you like the Punisher, you'll love
this, then you're already going in predisposed, you know what I
mean? You're already going in with
some, shall we say, expectations, You know what I
mean? And that is it.
(33:11):
The lens is already tinted, you know what I mean?
Because at that point you're already like, all right, cool,
cool, let's do it, let's check. And then you don't like it.
And it's like, huh, well, then you already had an expectation,
you know, and the format, you know, it's kind of by fly by the
seat of the pants here a little bit, you know, and it really
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does. It really does put a smile on my
face that watching Grease, you know, watching Dirty Harry 2
movies that couldn't be further apart from one another.
But seeing that they both have aplace in the early days,
forefront for what cinema will become, you know, and I don't
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know, I just enjoy it. I enjoy it.
And like I said, I love all movies, you know, all movies,
you know, there's a lot of genres like that that aren't
really around anymore, you know,especially the ROM coms, you
know, the ROM com era is kind ofcome and gone a little bit, you
know? You saw a couple of films here
and there that slide in like I think the last one I had watched
was probably Crazy Rich Asians. Which is a great film, yeah.
(34:19):
I I did really like that. So I mean, some movies are going
to always be a hit or miss, but they all have their place, I
think. And, you know, it's fun to just
watch something new, especially something that's, you know, a
unique idea despite what genre falls under who's acting in it,
whether you've ever heard of it or not.
(34:40):
You know, I think it's definitely fun, which is why I
like every movie suggestion you've given me.
But you'd, like, just go home, watch it.
You know, I don't. I personally just find the
movie, turn it on. I have no expectations walking
in to it. And it's great because, yeah, I
mean, I mean, even today with new movies and shows that I want
(35:04):
to watch that look cool, I try to look into it as little as I
possibly can. I want to experience it in full
and have like, no expectations of what's happening because,
yeah, I'm not going to like every single thing that I watch.
But you know, if I go in with expectations, it definitely does
change. You know what you're going to
(35:26):
think of the movie. I think that as much as, you
know, we love trailers, we love,you know, sneak peeks behind the
scenes and stuff like that, there is something, you know,
kind of fun about like, oh, I just want to, I just want to
digest the film the way it was intended.
You know, I just want to enjoy the film the way it was
(35:46):
intended. And, you know, it's it's tough
because Grease, Jaws, Dirty Harry, you know, they were out,
but then they just kind of went away, you know, And I mean, you
had a limited time to see him. You had a limited time to
experience it. And I think that going into a
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film like that and part of that whole inception behind the show
was, well, yeah, let's just, I'll just recommend some to you.
Don't. You don't have to look it up.
You don't have to read about it,you know, and just check it out,
find it, see what you think, youknow, which in a weird way is
kind of like sending yourself a little bit back in time, a
little bit like, oh, I'm just watching this film in its most
(36:31):
purest organic form, the way it was meant to be seen.
Because, you know as well as I do that trailers can be
misleading. The job of a trailer is to get
you excited for a trailer, you know?
And if the trailer gets you excited, guess what?
The trailer did its job, you know?
Whereas for, you know, back in the day, I mean, yeah, you saw a
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trailer, but everybody experienced it together, you
know? So before we wrap this up,
before we get out of here on this one, with all the ones that
you've watched so far, how does the 70s feel?
Do you want to stay in the 70s? Do you want to go back to the
80s? Do you want to what, what area
(37:15):
do you want to roll with? I mean, 'cause there's a lot,
there's still a lot through the 70s.
There's still, there's tons through the 60s.
There's stuff through the 50s and 40s.
And then there's, you know, you can go.
You could write a book with how much stuff came out in the 80s,
in the 90s, in the early 2000s. How does it resonate with you so
(37:36):
far? I mean, it's, it's so far, the
70s are definitely it definitelyhas my attention.
I want to see what else, you know, was there at that time
because, you know, some of thesemovies like I'm jealous that I
never got to like see it on the big screen.
Dirty Harry, Uncle Buck, even like small soldiers, even
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Grease, I would say, you know, Iwould have loved to see in these
movies on the theater. So I kind of, I want to keep
going through. I want to cycle through.
I think, you know, even if we goback to the 60s, I think that
would be interesting because I'm, I'm loving.
So I'm loving the 70s. So I'm curious to see, you know,
even earlier stages of, you know, filmmaking.
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I'd love to see that, but I mean, yeah, there's already been
a long list of movies you've given me for 70s and 80s, so I
definitely have to cycle back around and go through all of
these. We'll definitely work our way
through it for sure. There is one trilogy involving
Clint Eastwood, which I put up there as quite possibly one of
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the best trilogy's of all time. For narrative reasons, for
character driven reasons, for art direction, cinematography.
For all you cinephiles out thereand for all you passionate film
fans out there, you'll know exactly which trilogy I'm
(39:09):
talking about. And I think that would be a
good, good place to kind of see where you're at, you know,
because this is audio and they can't, they can't see your face
from my face. But I think that Clint Eastwood
and one of his, you know, most iconic roles and not one, but
(39:30):
two, but 33 iconic films, I think would be a good place to
start. And I think I can say this on
air. I think I'd like you to check
out the Dollars trilogy. The Dollars trilogy.
And have you seen that? You know what that is?
I don't know if I know what it is.
The dollars trilogy it is great.So we'll we'll do a little
(39:52):
homework. I'll, I'll kind of I'll, I'll,
I'll send you the titles and then maybe when you come back
you can, we can, we can dish, wecan dish out on this one too for
sure. And it will be very, very
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interesting to hear what you think because.
This trilogy did cement and redefine a genre tenfold.
That's all I'm going to say. But yeah, yeah, man, I'm.
I'm glad you're having a good time with it so far.
That's awesome. And you're just, you know,
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you're just kind of coming in this thing, like bare bones a
little bit. Yeah.
Let's check it out. Let's do it.
Let's give it a shot. And but yeah, thank you for your
time for this one, man. And thank you so much for being
here to do this episode. Oh yes, I'm always happy to hear
your suggestions and for us to talk about it.
It's always, always a pleasure. All right, all right, man.
Well, IG thank you so much for being here, man.
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I'm glad you enjoyed Grease. I'm glad you enjoyed Dirty
Harry. I knew you would enjoy one of
them. So 5050.
All right, my man, thank you so much.
Thank you so much for being here.
Hey, for everybody else out there, this has been a special
episode of the core of Entertainment IG's trip to the
70s this week. This is an audio only podcast
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Are there any 70s films that youthink IG should check out?
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Are there any films that he should check out Through the
80s, through the 60s, through the 90s?
There is a library of cinema that he should probably check
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ground for the next episode. Hopefully IG will be able to
check out one of the greatest trilogies of all time in the
Dollars Trilogy. Thank you so much for listening.
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